Apparently, the Jan Schakowsky’s House Subcommittee completed its investigations of all the times the CIA failed to inform the Gang of Eight about covert ops and in other ways broke the law. Apparently, that investigation found “several instances” where CIA failed for follow the law procedures. But you can’t know precisely what those violations are, [...]

Congratulations to Steven Aftergood, whose persistent efforts to get the government to reveal the topline intelligence budget have finally paid off. Yesterday, the government officially announced that it spent $80.1 billion on intelligence in the last year, up 7% in just the last year and 100% since 9/11. The government announced Thursday that it had [...]

Here’s one of the more curious details about yesterday’s surprise news that Steven Kappes was leaving the CIA. Best as I can tell, the White House has not yet issued a statement about his retirement (at least not via the White House press list). Not even in a week when one of the key issues [...]

Congress has managed to review all aspects of torture used in the military, with no untoward outcome. Yet CIA insists if the same happens for the torture used in the CIA, the sky will fall.

The tennis match over how much the CIA lies to Congress continues.

Silvestre Reyes says that CIA lied to Congress. But Crazy Pete Hoekstra wants to politicize that rather than deal with the lies themselves.

Sy Hersh seems intent on pushing Democrats to start withholding funding from Cheney’s illegal war-mongering in Iran.

HPSCI is reportedly making progress on its Torture Tape investigation.

The Democrats definitely seem to be sending mixed signals on FISA reform.

The Republicans purportedly negotiating FISA with Conyers, Reyes, Leahy, and Jello Jay told their staffers to skip the meeting.